Cloning Doubletalk

SENATORS DIANNE FEINSTEIN and Orrin Hatch have just introduced Senate Bill 812, which explicitly legalizes human cloning and–since a shortage of human eggs is currently impeding human cloning research (one egg is needed for each attempt at cloning)–the bill also authorizes researchers to pay women to undergo egg procurement.

And if the purpose of the legislation wasn’t bad enough, there’s its name: Feinstein and Hatch mendaciously named S. 812 the “Human Cloning Ban and Stem Cell Protection Act of 2007.”